The UEFA Champions League winners tried to get an impromptu practice session going Thursday on the National Mall in Washington, DC. But not even the world's best soccer club is immune from the rules prohibiting such congregation near the White House.

They got the old heave-ho and filed back on the team bus, presumably to find a less restrictive patch of grass to practice upon.

"Security said you couldn't have a group of more than 10 or 15 there," midfielder Xavi said. "We wanted to loosen up a little, stretch... Given that the White House was near so it was normal security, nothing more."

Researchers asked 1,528 people which Yankee is the greatest of all time.

Babe Ruth and Derek Jeter tied for the top spot, each getting 23 percent of the votes. Joe DiMaggio (9 percent), Lou Gehrig (8 percent) and Mickey Mantle (3 percent) were the next three players mentioned by those polled.

Kristin Cavallari, the ex-fiancee of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, took to Twitter yesterday to refute a story posted by a gossip website that claimed she called her former beau a "loser" and "p----" for faking a knee injury during a loss to the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game.

"Stop believing everything ur reading...not 1 thing has been accurate
and I haven't commented AT ALL and jay hasn't either so its all bs,"
Cavallari tweeted.

Current subscribers will be able to watch programming, which will include more than 40 football and 100 basketball games, on the Internet, iPhone and iPad. On-demand and archive features will also be available.

We're tremendously excited to launch BTN2Go
because, as mobile technology has advanced, this is something fans
are asking for," Silverman said in a statement. "Big Ten fans are
frequently on the go, and would like to watch BTN while away from
home. BTN2Go gives fans that option at no additional cost to
them."

It features a shirtless Holmes drinking pricey champagne straight out of the bottle.

"Just finish a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal from 2002! Big bro showed loved today," the wide receiver tweeted just an hour after agreeing to terms with the New York Jets on a five-year, $50 million deal.

Apparently this type of celebration is not new to Holmes. After receiving a $100,000 signing bonus from the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006, he spread the money across his mattress, snapped a photo and sent it to a friend.

Despite missing the first four games of the 2010 season due to a suspension, Holmes caught 52 passes for 746 yards and six touchdowns. His late-game heroics helped the Jets win games against the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions and Houston Texans.

Look away, Cub fans. More Steve Bartman-themed programming is coming to a television near you.

ESPN will air a documentary about Chicago's least-liked fan at 7 p.m. on Sept. 27 as part of a seven-film documentary series under its "30 For 30" banner.

The project is titled "Catching Hell" and chronicles that now-infamous 2003 NLCS game and the subsequent scapegoating of Bartman. Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney "relates the scapegoat compulsion to his own frustration as a Red Sox fan
when Bill Buckner was similarly singled out for letting a fateful ground
ball go through his legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series," according to a release from ESPN Films.

The man who gained national recognition for wearing a LeBron James Heat jersey to a Cleveland Indians game last year is in serious condition after he was attacked early this morning.

Matthew Bellamy, 30, was walking home from a bar in Sandusky, Ohio around 3 a.m. with a group of friends when a man jumped out of a car and hit him three times, according to witnesses.

Police have issued a warrant for Robert Horton, 23, who faces felony assault charges.

Bellamy secured internet fame last July when he wore a James jersey to Progressive Field a few short days after the basketball star's controversial decision aired. He was escorted out of the stadium after fans began tossing food and alcohol at him.

Are you excited for Pac-12 football? Wait, let me rephrase that. Do your primary and ancillary senses tingle in anticipation for the genesis of a newly constructed league brimming with pride, prestige and football-playing powerhouses?

If not, this Steven Spielberg-grade promotional video should do the trick.

The video, debuted at the conference's media day in Los Angeles, is making the rounds today and creating quite a buzz. Despite widespread criticism that it's overdone, it's doing exactly what it was intended to do, which is sell the sizzle.

A source tells the New York Post that the wide receiver is "seriously considering" it.

Burress, who was released from prison last month after serving nearly two years on a gun charge, is part of the NFL free-agent free-for-all that has the rumor mill churning out speculation even more rapidly than usual. Any agreement between the Giants and Burress would have to wait until Friday under recently installed league rules.

The Pittsburgh Pirates have become America's darling with unexpected success this year, but their feel-good story had a controversial and unsettling chapter last night.

The Buccos fought the Atlanta Braves 19 innings before falling victim to what appears to be another blown call by an umpire at home plate in a crucial situation.

In the bottom of the 19th, with runners on second and third and one out, Braves pitcher Scott Proctor had to bat for himself. He tapped a ground ball to Pirates third baseman Pedro Alvarez, who threw home to catcher Michael McKenry. McKenry appeared to tag the Braves' Julio Lugo well before Lugo came close to the plate.

Home plate umpire Jerry Meals, however, didn't see it that way. He ruled Lugo safe and gifted the home team a shocking and unconventional walk-off win.